Poland says will 'play rough' with EU after Tusk vote


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  • Monday, 13 Mar 2017

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski speaks during a news briefing after a meeting with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Kiev, Ukraine, March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will start obstructing European Union business and "play a rough game" in Brussels after the bloc angered Warsaw by reappointing Donald Tusk as head of the European Council, the foreign minister said.

Tusk, Poland's former prime minister and a long-standing rival of ruling PiS party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, won a second term as chairman of EU summit meetings - with Poland the only country to vote against his extension.

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